THE SPECIES OF AFRIDA MOSCHLER 31 



species is in some respects near the original of minuta Druce, though 

 quite distinct from the accepted determination of that species. 



Afrida gymnes Dyar. 



This will be described in the report of the Smithsonian Biological Sur- 

 vey of Panama, together with pnixis. The ordinary band is interrupted 

 through the middle, giving quite a characteristic appearance to the little 

 moth. I have a small series of cotypes. 



Afrida cosmiogramma, new species. 



Fore wing white ; basal space brownish, limited by a dark half-line 

 from costa ; mesial band broad, brownish filled, black edged, the edge 

 lines straight, the inner angled on submedian, the outer at vein 4, curved 

 below ; inner half of median band more strongly dark-filled than outer, 

 intensified on submedian fold ; a dark diffused shade on margin, touching 

 projection of median band. Hind wing whitish, with gray discal point 

 and terminal border. Expanse, 1 mm. 



Type, male, No. 1 5433, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Baracoa, Cuba, September, 

 1902 (W. Schaus). 



/ Afrida ydatodes, new species. 



Essentially as in the preceding, but diffused and irrorated ; the white 

 areas are pale gray from the dark irroralions, the central band is clouded, 

 dark, its edges not forming strong lines, but only a little darker. Hind 

 vsang whitish, with gray discal point and terminal border. Expanse, 

 10 mm. 



Type, female, No. 15434, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Florida (Beutenmuller 

 collection). 



Afrida ciliata Hampson. 



Afrida ciliata Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. Brit. Mus., ii, 350, 1900. 

 Apparently close to A. sceletozona Schaus, but easily told from all 

 the other species by the non-pectinate antennae of the male. 1 have no 

 specimens of this form. 



Afrida melicerta Druce. 



Nola melicerta Druce, Biol. Cent.- Am., Lep. Het., i, 140, 1885. 

 The largest species in the genus and very distinctly marked. I have 

 it only from Costa Rica. Hampson's other localities, Mexico, Brazil and 

 Bolivia, refer to other species (Cat. Lep. Phal. Brit. Mus., ii, 350, 1900). 



